For the 10 themes, 10 drabbles challenge (Write a Romance); the Globetrotter Drabble Competition (Paris, France); the Legendary Creatures Competition (Amefurikozou) and the If You Dare Challenge (630. Innocent Love)
They were the extras, the disposable ones to the rest of the school.
Few people outside Slytherin even knew that Blaise Zabini and Daphne Greengrass existed. It didn't matter that Blaise and Draco were closer than Draco was to those goons of his, or that Daphne was the gorgeous counterpart to Pansy's ugliness. The fact that they didn't act out like their classmates meant that it was only the people who shared a Common Room with them daily who noticed them.
If you asked their fellow Slytherins, they would say the rest of the school was lucky for its obliviousness.
Blaise Zabini fell in love with Daphne Greengrass the first time he met her, when they were both seven. He had just arrived in England to his mother following his Italian father's death, and she was one of the few children his age he had met.
Even at such a young age, Daphne had been a beauty, and the sight of her had convinced a naïve Blaise that he was looking at an angel. He had followed her around for the rest of the ball, and before the Greengrasses left, had made sure that their parents had a betrothal contract written up for the two of them.
Not that Daphne minded. In the few hours since she had first met him, she already found the dark-skinned boy endlessly more fascinating than Draco Malfoy, who her parents wanted to marry her to, and she already knew that unlike with Draco, she had the capability to fall in love with Blaise.
By the time they came to Hogwarts, they were inseparable and irreconcilably in love. Everyone had thought that childish cuddles and hesitant kisses was the worst they could get when being sickeningly sweet – that was, until they hit puberty.
Now – well, now, it was accepted practice in the Slytherin Common Room to give Blaise's dormitory a wide berth when the two of them were in there together. After all, it was easier for a person's sanity to have a set of clothes in another dorm when chased out of their own than to be subjected to Blaise and Daphne.
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